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Xappr and appBlaster are fine weaponizers for your smartphone, provided you don't care to share your violent tendencies with your friends. Thankfully, Hasbro is bridging the gap between new-school AR shooter and that teenage classic -- laser tag. The NERF Lazer Tag system is getting an update for 2012...

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In North America, gamers are now generally divided into two distinct generations: those that grew up in the midst of the vibrant video arcade culture of the '70s and '80s; and those born since. The latter group's experience with arcades is primarily through redemption-machine-filled restaurants like Dave & Busters...

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Gamers, start your engines, lift your fruit-slicing swords, and lace up your Temple-running shoes. Game Center, Apple’s gaming/social hub for iOS, has finally made it’s way over to the more mature Apple OS, OS X Mountain Lion. This is huge. Not because you’ll be able to enjoy the features of...

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SSDs—how do they work? Not with magnets. Flickr user Zhou Tong Way back in 1997, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was working part-time at the local Babbage's for $4.25 an hour, I scraped together enough spare change to purchase a 3Dfx Voodoo-based Diamond Monster 3D video card....

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While there’s no doubt that tablets are becoming a huge market for gaming, the touch screen interface provides a number issues for both gamers, who want a quality experience, and developers who have to adapt to a control-pad-free environment. However, one Polish startup is giving developers the tools to provide...

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After a pair of audio-centric giveaways, you'd think we would be done with the genre for a while, right? Wrong! Today's offering isn't necessarily a pair of headphones or fancy speaker system, but rather the Pantech Element, a waterproof Android tablet that just so happens to be equipped with...

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According to a very short, very rumor-filled VG24/7 piece, Sony is looking at adding cloud-enabled gaming to the Playstation line, presumably in the form of an Onlive or Gaikai partnership. Given that we won’t see much new this year at E3 – aside for official Wii U availability and perhaps...

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Epic Games, the maker of some of the most successful games ever to hit a games console, has revealed it is “constantly pushing” next-generation console makers including Microsoft and Sony to make their platforms as advanced as technically possible, so that Apple — with its range of evolving iOS mobile...

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You may remember StarStreet from last year’s launch – it’s the TechStars and SV Angel-backed sports investing game that turns fantasy sports into a stock market system where you build up portfolios of top players as if they were stocks. Today, the company is launching a new, more addictive game...

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One of the hottest trends in gaming right now isn’t mobile, social, or massively multiplayer games, but online casinos. This may seem somewhat surprising considering that it was only a year ago that the Justice Department seized the domain names of some of the country’s largest online poker platforms, like...

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Mobile ad and monetization platform Tapjoy is announcing a new $5 million fund – the “Tapjoy Asia Fund” – which aims to support development and marketing of free-to-play mobile games on both iOS and Android. The new fund is an extension of the company’s earlier $5 million push from June...

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Wrap your brain around this LEGO fans. Build a LEGO car, use some wireless bricks to do it, then see your own vehicle in action in a game. Cool right? The LEGO BrainBricks include tiny sensors, which enable the bricks to sense their configuration with one another and communicate it...

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OnLive competitor Gaikai is entering a partnership with WikiPad, creator of the WikiPad 3D, to bring its game streaming service to the Android slate. The WikiPad 3D is an Android 4.0 tablet that we first saw back at CES, but it's changed quite a lot since then. It's now...

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Activision Blizzard has closed a multi-year partnership with local Internet giant Tencent to bring Call of Duty Online to China, the gaming company announced today. As you may know if you are familiar with this highly popular franchise, Activision Blizzard’s subsidiary Activision Publishing has been developing Call of Duty Online for about two...

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I hate on-screen game controls; there I said it. Granted, not everyone minds them, but as gaming goes mobile, there has to be a better solution than covering up an already small screen with your fingers just to move around and shoot some aliens. Nyko has the right idea, debuting...

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Apple introduced a new MacBook Pro laptop today that uses the “revolutionary” retina display that has been previously only used in the iPhone and iPad line-ups. The new MacBook Pro has a 15.4-inch screen with a pixel density of 2,880 x 1,800 pixels, or four times the number of pixels...

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Today marks the American launch of the PlayStation Vita, Sony's latest handheld gaming device. We talk with Sony Computer Entertainment America president Jack Tretton about producing a dedicated game system in the era of smartphones and tablets.[twistage 812c7148e967c] Kevin Ohannessian: What are you feeling as the launch approaches? Jack Tretton:...

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MXP4 and Mobile Roadie have partnered to take social music games to mobile devices. Under the partnership, MXP4′s Bopler Games social music games will be integrated into Mobile Roadie artist apps. The net result should a lot of music listening and game playing on mobile devices. The companies hope that...

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In September, social game developer Idle Games launched on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, declaring that they were on a mission to become “the Pixar of casual games.” In other words, they want to make games that not only look good, but have an interesting narrative. The startup’s first...

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Acer on Thursday announced the company’s first quad-core tablet for North America, the Acer Iconia Tab A510. The 10.1-inch tablet is equipped with a 1,280 x 800-pixel display, an NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset, 1GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, a microSD slot, an HDMI port, a 5-megapixel rear...

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Rightly or wrongly, gaming has always been viewed as a solitary activity, but Nintendo wants to make sure that Wii gamers never again have to stomp on giant mushrooms or rescue princesses alone. The retooled version of the Wii U GamePad, unveiled by Nintendo during the annual E3 conference...

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Ubisoft's "Ghost Recon Commander," a Facebook version of the megapopular gaming franchise, is one of the most ambitious games ever created for Facebook. Will other game firms follow in its heavily armed footsteps?Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is one of the most popular gaming franchises ever. Now Ubisoft and Loot Drop...

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Ubisoft is releasing a version of its popular Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon franchise on Facebook today with the goal of attracting the same hardcore audience that will pay $60 for the console version coming out tomorrow. In a teaser video, posted on YouTube, Ubisoft’s tagline is: “Finally, a gamer’s game...

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The upcoming Nintendo Wii U entry in the new-school Mario franchise with old-school gameplay, New Super Mario Bros. U, will introduce never-before-seen modes while allowing players to connect with the recently announced Miiverse service. Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime revealed new details about the title, using it as...

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The fast rate of credit card innovation continues apace. Is this only about money? Or is it also about the discovery of new things and ideas?Square and similar systems have changed the way we pay for things. But they are not alone. Powered by simple smartphone systems and near field...

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Bloomberg reports this morning that Amazon is set to add social gaming features to its hot-selling Kindle Fire, giving it a feature that Google currently doesn’t make available on stock Android. Specifically, the company will make it easy for developers to add the social feature into their existing games, presumably with a...

techcrunch.com

Only about 5% Facebook gamers pay to play freemium games. If Facebook could up this percentage, it and its third-party app developers could make a lot more money. That’s the idea behind a new promotion Facebook announced today where those who’ve never bought Facebook Credits virtual currency before will be offered...